Minecraft Rubric - Circulatory System

This Minecraft rubric is based on creating a model heart in Minecraft to demonstrate the circulatory system. The rubric provides a method of scaffolding success criteria and differentiation for pupils. It is designed to give students more ownership of their learning, which should allow pupils to develop their independence, as well as provide them with clarity for how to develop their project against each cross-curricular area.

I have designed this rubric based on the new areas of learning and experiences (AOLEs) from the Welsh curriculum, but it can be easily adapted to suit any curriculum. The template is fully editable and will be delivered via PowerPoint. All AOLE titles are available on the outer part of the page if you want to create additional rows to demonstrate further cross-curricular links in the lesson. The grids include an area for the learning objective or ‘I can…’ statement and an area to explain the activity overview. Each success criteria also has an assessment check-box which is colour-coded for teacher, self or peer assessment. The template includes an area where pupils can cut/paste a QR code from Flipgrid of them giving a tour of their completed build, as well as an area for teachers to provide oral feedback linked to a QR code (as this is fully editable, you can easily merge these cells if you don’t want this feature).

Using the PowerPoint is simple. Simply edit the information in the text boxes, or use the grid and information as it is. Cells can be easily split or additional rows can be easily inserted if you want to add more/less success criteria. The PowerPoint can then either be shown on the board or saved as a PDF and handed out to students within a lesson or for homework.